Fertile, MN

The tourism assessment has been completed and a report compiled.  Ryan Pesch, U of MN Community Economics Extension Educator, and I had a great time working with you to make this happen.  I hope it is useful to you and sparks new ideas.  Looking back over the past 18-months, it has been great to see ideas around tourism already come into fruition.  From a new Bed and Breakfast and a remodeled motel, to great flower planters and wifi at LaLa’s, Fertile really does have a lot of offer.  I hear Summer Fest at AELC and the short trainings out there were a success.  Keep up the fabulous work.

Take a look at the report by clicking on the link below.  Maybe you too will find something fun to do around Fertile!

Fertile Tourism Report

And, Jennifer, thank you to LaLa’s for hosting us, letting us enjoy your venue for the day and for the FABULOUS homemade icecream!

Congratulations, Fertile!

After 18 months of planning, organizing, great conversations, and hard work, your work plan is complete!  Click the link below to find details of the Horizons Team organizational plans, focus areas, and projects.  It has been great seeing the projects.  The flowers are looking great and I can’t wait to play frisbee golf!  Great work!

Fertile Work Plans

This week we showed the Youth Council video to all 8th & 9th grade students in Mr. Solie’s class, 7th graders in Mrs. Burke’s class, and 10 & 11th graders in Mr. Steffes’ class.  Stacey Morvig, along with Tyler Rice & Kassidy Lehman, created the video in Mrs. Halvorson’s Advance Comm class. We showed the video and asked the students to take a survey to let us know if they think we should start a Fertile Youth Council and what types of changes they’d like to see here.  We got a lot of really awesome surveys from those classes and great ideas to move forward with.  A Youth Council would be a great way for the youth of Fertile to get involved with their community and create more opportunity for Youth here!

The city website is being revamped. The goal is to include every business, resource, and activity connected with the city of Fertile. A list is slowly being compiled. The school business webmasters (seniors) will be assisting this project. Any and all businesses that would like to have more than just contact information listed should contact Yvonne Halvorson at the school. A website can be made for your business for just $50.00. This is a bargain. You will have your own website and there will be a link to your site on the city site. Any questions or comments about the site contact Jennifer Sobin at 945-3543.
Hope to see you at the Tourism meeting tomorrow night!

To reiterate the previous blog by Kathy, the Hand to Hand portion of our local Horizons group is in need of item contributions. Spring is here and attics and basements might just hold a treasure for someone else and be a relief for the present owner to be rid of! Contact Senora, Jeannie or Jennifer. Contact info on the Hand to Hand page.

As soon as possible a counter will be added to the Fertile Community Blog site. This will help the Fertile Horizons group gauge how the site functions within the community.

We had a meeting last night and here are a few updates.

The word for welcome baskets has spread. There were 3 welcome baskets made and given out to new families in Fertile. If anyone knows of a new family moving to the area contact Jeannie or Senora for a welcome basket.

We are pleased to find out Hand to Hand has given away almost all thier itmes. If you know of anyone that is spring cleaning and needs to get rid of items let them know about Hand to Hand.

Tuesday 1st is our Tourism meeting at DeeVine Dining. Anyone is welcome to come. Please RSVP Jeannie by Friday so she can have an idea how many will attend.

Next Meeting will be April 15th at 6:00pm at the Sandhill Super Club.

What would you like to see at the Park in the future? Horizon has some good idea’s, let us here your your idea’s.

A Horizon’s monthly team meeting was held on Tuesday,February 19th at Deevine Dining in Fertile. Those present discussed future squad updates; progress being made in the different area of focus as have been previously mentioned. The overall feeling is progress is being made, communication is working and as much time as possible is being made for these volunteer hours being put in by the various people involved. With basketball season coming to an end, there will be more time for many of us to focus on the different future squad areas we are working in and by the March meeting there will more to report.
Next meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 6PM Deevine Dining.
Please note: There will be an event planning meeting at 5:30Pm at Deevine Dining on Tuesday April 1. Any interested community members are welcome to listen, learn, and share ideas.